{"id":37193,"date":"2021-06-06T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=37193"},"modified":"2021-06-06T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T15:00:10","slug":"roger-federer-withdraws-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/06\/06\/roger-federer-withdraws-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Federer Withdraws From French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer has announced via social media his decision to withdraw from the ongoing French Open. The decision is not a huge surprise after what he had to say in his post match press conference after a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/06\/05\/roger-federer-dominik-koepfer-french-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">hard-fought third round win over Dominik Koepfer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe go through these matches, you know, we analyze them highly and look on what&#8217;s next and will do the same tonight and tomorrow latest, because I need to decide if I keep on playing or not or is it not too much risk at this moment to keep on pushing or is this just a perfect way to just take a rest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 20-time Grand Slam champion had mentioned before the tournament started that he didn&#8217;t have too many expectations at this year&#8217;s French Open and that it would serve him better as helping him get match practice before <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wimbledon\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Wimbledon<\/a> 2021.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/70C8RYr69J\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/70C8RYr69J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rogerfederer\/status\/1401547332999692294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The decision to withdraw is something that his fans wouldn&#8217;t have wished to hear but the 39-year-old Swiss feels the best decision has been made.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After discussions with my team, I&#8217;ve decided I will need to pull out of the French Open today. After two knee surgeries and over a year of rehabilitation it&#8217;s important that I listen to my body and make sure I don&#8217;t push myself too quickly on my road to recovery. I am thrilled to have gotten three matches under my belt,&#8221; as stated by Federer in his post on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss feels he&#8217;s achieved what he wanted to this week and Wimbledon is what he wants to really target this year. The last time Roger Federer appeared at Wimbledon, he lost in a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2019\/07\/14\/novak-djokovic-defeats-roger-federer-5th-wimbledon-title-16th-career-grand-slam\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">thrilling final<\/a> to Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer has announced via social media his decision to withdraw from the ongoing French Open. The decision is not a huge surprise after what he had to say in his post match press conference after a hard-fought third round win over Dominik Koepfer. \u201cWe go through these matches, you know, we analyze them highly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3075,"featured_media":37072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,5,9],"tags":[18,15915,114],"class_list":["post-37193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","category-featured","category-french-open","category-news","tag-atp","tag-french-open-2021","tag-roger-federer"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}